I am one of the folks that genuinely enjoys the DF xpac. I avoided jumping to SoD because it looked like a mess when it launched, and several rounds of Blizz tinkering with it later, I think I was right to do so.
However, the band got back together and wanted to play on the Lone Wolf server. Back in Vanilla Classic, a group of us met and formed a solid team of paladins, and we had a lot of fun together. I can honestly say that it was the most fun that I’ve had since original Vanilla, and it just proved to me that close friends really are what makes this game endure.
They finally talked me into jumping into SoD, so here I am, for hours and hours, reading posts of other people who have spent days, if not weeks, trying to do what I am doing: Trying to get onto a server to play with their friends.
It’s not at all worth playing if I’m not going to be playing with my friends. It’s not fair to ask them to drop their raiding toons to make new characters on other servers.
In short, it’s not worth paying for if you can’t manage your servers properly after 20 years of dealing with the same issues. Sure, I’ll just keep playing retail, while my friends are playing together without me, at least for now.
You let me down, Blizz. You’ve let a lot of people down with this ridiculous limitation.
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tldr: let me play with my friends and ruin the experience of everyone else on the realm,
I know you probably don’t care because its all me me me but if that realm is locked to alliance it means that the realm is 53% alliance and the lock is doing exactly what it’s intended to do by protecting the 47% of horde players from a flood of alliance on a highly active pvp server. This is them managing their servers, this is the intended result.
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So unbelievably entitled.
‘Factions should be wildly imbalanced because I twiddled my thumbs for weeks on my high horse of arrogance, now faction is locked’.
it’s not worth paying for if you can’t manage your servers properly after 20 years of dealing with the same issues.
Good news, they’ve figured it out. It’s called faction lock and layering, it works really well for 99.9% of players currently.
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SoD: Blatantly favoring alliance through an uncountable number of advantages.
Players: Alright, we’ll ALL try to play alliance then!
SoD: Nah, faction lock if too many of you go alliance.
Players:
It was their choice to play on the obvious faction locked faction. Many threads were made warning about it beforehand. It wasn’t a mystery alliance would be faction locked immediately.
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I was pretty skeptical of faction locking layers, however, I’ve come to believe it’s one of the best decisions Blizz has made in years.
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Just wait for a periodic bot flood on the other side. You’ll be able to create your character.
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Huge fan of faction locking. It sucks that you joined late, but if you keep trying eventually you’ll be able to make a character with your friends. My brother had to wait a couple of days to make a character with me, but now he’s almost 25 and will be raiding with my guild this week. The best part is, open world PvP feels so amazing because one faction doesn’t dominate the server. Best decision blizzard has made on faction balance.
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Judging from the number of people with the same issues, they didn’t find a very good solution at all.
Launching SoD right after season 3 started on retail was guaranteed to cause many people to feel reservations about jumping over.
I’m not sure why they can’t allow for cross-realm play with friends like they’ve used for years now on retail. If population imbalance is an issue on one server, just place the group into the server with the lowest imbalance instead of the group leader’s server.
Before you go into “but this isn’t retail”, actually it is. We’re still paying for it, and it’s using retail features on each class while using the older GUI.
You can roll on locked servers when they are not during peak times. I rolled an alliance character on Crusader Strike to see if I was able to early in the morning and could do so.
because jumbling up a bunch of players from random servers to simulate a zone being “populated” is how you get retail
I’ve heard the same, as implied in the original post. I’ve been trying for days. Early, mid day, late, no luck so far.
I made a toon on another server to just try SoD in the meantime. I don’t really feel like doing this twice.
I still haven’t figured out how to plan around, or avoid them.
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Every word you just spoke was wrong, amazing.
No this isn’t retail, god if only all of you had stayed away.
Names would be a problem. This would work if each name had to be unique across all servers tho.
I mean, it sounds like SoD isn’t for you. You already have a game that is for you and it’s retail. So… just keep on playing that. Happy for you that you’re enjoying DF.
I’m actually enjoying SoD quite a bit, hopefully they take any suggestions I’ve made as constructive feedback knowing that I’m still having fun and that I think they’re killin’ it.
The faction locks are automatic and temporary.
Just keep trying and you’ll slip in whenever it turns off.
Don’t care enough to keep trying? Then yeah, maybe SOD isn’t for you.
The information was there. Faction locks were planned and people were given plenty of notice.
Seems like you failed to expect something.
Nah, they just append your server to your name to fix that on retail servers